CentOS - Jul 2008 - enterprise backup solution (probably amanda?)

Hello guys,

hope i am not making an offtopic

Currently we are looking for storage/backup solution in our company.

Basically we need to backup data incrementaly from windows server and centos
server + subversion repositories.

So far i believe amanda would be best for this situation and also has good
reference.

Is there anything else - i would be glad to have space for research and
choose backuping solution which fits for my needs best.

Thanks in advance!

David
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I think backups are important and always on topic. 

You could always use Veritas Netbackup.  That's what one of my clients uses 
with great success.  It backups up Windows, Linux and does full, 
incremental, restores etc etc all from a nice Java GUI.

It's $$$ but you can't get more Enterprise than that. ;)

Shawn

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, David Hl??ik wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> hope i am not making an offtopic
>
> Currently we are looking for storage/backup solution in our company.
>
> Basically we need to backup data incrementaly from windows server and
> centos server + subversion repositories.
>
> So far i believe amanda would be best for this situation and also has
> good reference.
>
> Is there anything else - i would be glad to have space for research and
> choose backuping solution which fits for my needs best.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> David

David Hl??ik wrote:
> Basically we need to backup data incrementaly from windows server and
centos
> server + subversion repositories.
Not as enterprise grade as veritas but still pretty good.
http://www.tolisgroup.com/products/

I've been using BRU(CLI version) off and on for about 8 years now,
the company has been doing backup stuff for a bit over 30 years now.

I haven't looked at amanda since 2000, so I'm sure it's improved
since,
at the time it wasn't usable for me so I went to BRU and haven't seen
a need to switch off of it since.

nate

David Hl?c(ik wrote:
>
> hope i am not making an offtopic
>  
> Currently we are looking for storage/backup solution in our company.
>  
> Basically we need to backup data incrementaly from windows server and 
> centos server + subversion repositories.
>  
> So far i believe amanda would be best for this situation and also has 
> good reference.
> 
> Is there anything else - i would be glad to have space for research and 
> choose backuping solution which fits for my needs best.
If a disk based archive will work, backuppc 
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is fairly painless and it's scheme of 
compression and hardlinking duplicates lets you keep about 10x the 
history you'd expect.  If you need offsite copies you'll have to run an 
independent instance elsewhere or come up with a clever scheme to copy 
the disk though.  The massive number of hardlinks it creates makes it 
difficult to use normal methods to copy the archive partition.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

David Hl??ik wrote:
> Hello guys,
>  
> hope i am not making an offtopic
>  
> Currently we are looking for storage/backup solution in our company.
>  
> Basically we need to backup data incrementaly from windows server and 
> centos server + subversion repositories.
>  
> So far i believe amanda would be best for this situation and also has 
> good reference.
> 
> Is there anything else - i would be glad to have space for research and 
> choose backuping solution which fits for my needs best.
>  

I'm an Amanda user since 9+ years now.
Done several restores, even bare metal ones.
Amanda never failed on me.

Note that the most important functionality of a backup program
is actually the restore process.
One of the biggest advantages when using Amanda is the possibility
to restore using only the bare bones system utilities like dd, tar,
dump etc., very handy when you have only a backup tape and a brand
new machine to restore to.

When doing backups from MS Windows, be aware that Amanda can only
backup/restore data files. Amanda is not good for programs (and
especially their registry settings and all undocumented stuff done 
during installs of them). I do the backups of our MS-Windows clients
with BackupPC (see the mail from Les Mikesell): very good (but backups
are only to disk).
We do not have many MS Windows servers, and most of those are
actually vmware instances, which are included in the amanda backups
of their hosts anyway.

And last but not least, there is a mailinglist with active and friendly 
people as well, helping you out for most problems (usually much better
and faster than payed support IMHO, where you have to argue for an day 
or two through the firstline helpdesk, before you get someone who 
understands your question).

--
Paul